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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in New England
Synonyms:
Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "ME"):
Acadia National Park (a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast)
Augusta; capital of Maine (the capital of the state of Maine)
Bangor (a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River)
Brunswick (a university town in southwestern Maine)
Lewiston (a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland)
Orono (a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor)
Portland (largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state)
Penobscot; Penobscot River (a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay)
Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River (a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy)
Holonyms ("ME" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)
Context examples:
Dear me! How happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! said Meg, who could remember better times.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Can't you tell me the point?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"He never looked at me that way all the time you was gone!" Matt commented.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I thought it might have become shredded in the post office machinery due to the very thin paper of the envelope she had sent me with her address on it.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Measurement: 0.6-1 volt/metre we're at about 100m from the antenna behind me.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) Asking others for help is difficult for me.
(PDQUALIF - Difficulty in Asking for Help, NCI Thesaurus)
For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) In the past 7 days, my illness has caused a financial strain for me and my family.
(PDQUALIF - Financial Strain in Past 7 Days, NCI Thesaurus)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) Maintaining my independence is important to me.
(PDQUALIF - Important to Maintain Independence, NCI Thesaurus)
Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) In the past 7 days, written or spoken communication is a problem for me.
(PDQUALIF - Problem with Communication in the Past 7 Days, NCI Thesaurus)
